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Small unit tactics is the application of US Army military doctrine for the combat deployment of platoons and smaller units in a particular strategic and logistic environment. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The composition of a United States Army squad falls into three broad categories: classical, balanced and combined.
The German Army equivalent of the platoon is the Zug (same word as for train, draught, move or streak), consisting of a Zugtrupp ("platoon troop" or platoon headquarters squad), of four to six men, and three squads (Gruppen) of eight to eleven men each. An Oberfeldwebel ("sergeant first class") is in charge of the Zugtrupp
In the US military, a squad leader is a non-commissioned officer who leads a squad of typically nine soldiers (US Army: squad leader and two fireteams of four men each) or 13 marines (US Marine Corps: squad leader and three fireteams of four men each) in a rifle squad, or three to eight men in a crew-served weapons squad. In the United States ...
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
A US Army publication from 2016 identifies fourteen "essential battle drills that an Infantry platoon and squad must train on to ensure success": [3] 1: React to Direct Fire; 2: Conduct a Platoon Attack; 2A: Conduct a Squad Assault; 3: Break Contact; 4: React to an Ambush; 5: Knock out a Bunker; 6: Enter and Clear a Room; 7: Enter a Trench to ...
In artillery batteries, the firing platoon consists of a platoon headquarters and six artillery sections, each containing a section chief (staff sergeant) eight-member gun crew with one howitzer, and a driver and prime mover (i.e., a truck to tow the artillery piece and transport the gun crew and baggage).
An example of a People's Volunteer Army fireteam in the late Korean War, [15] Squad leader/second in command/party member: Carried a Type 50 SMG, acted as the team leader; Rifleman/machine gunner: Carried a Mosin–Nagant rifle or a DP-27 machinegun; Rifleman/assistant machine gunner: Carried a Mosin–Nagant rifle
It consists of a headquarters platoon, a light-medium truck platoon, a medium truck platoon, and a maintenance section. Vehicle complement comprises 50 medium tactical vehicle cargo trucks, including the M1078 and M1083 variants, along with 25 trailers of the same payload capacity; and 10 M1088 medium tactical vehicle tractor trucks with 20 ...